TY - BOOK AU - Garrigus,John D. AU - Morris,Christopher TI - Assumed identities: the meanings of race in the Atlantic world T2 - The Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures SN - 9781603443197 AV - E29.A1 A86 2010eb U1 - 305.800973 22 PY - 2010/// CY - [College Station, Tex.] PB - Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A & M University Press KW - Group identity KW - America KW - History KW - Eurocentrism KW - Nationalism KW - Ethnic relations KW - Religious aspects KW - 17th century KW - Slave trade KW - Brazil KW - 19th century KW - Identité collective KW - Amérique KW - Histoire KW - Eurocentrisme KW - Nationalisme KW - Esclaves KW - Commerce KW - Brésil KW - 19e siècle KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Anthropology KW - Cultural KW - bisacsh KW - Discrimination & Race Relations KW - Ethnic Studies KW - General KW - Minority Studies KW - fast KW - Race relations KW - Haiti KW - 18th century KW - Revolution, 1791-1804 KW - Virginia KW - West Indies, British KW - Relations raciales KW - Haïti KW - 1791-1804 (Révolution) KW - Virginie KW - Relations interethniques KW - 17e siècle KW - Antilles britanniques KW - 18e siècle KW - West Indies KW - British West Indies N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: race and identity in the new world / Franklin W. Knight -- "Thy coming fame, Ogé! is sure": new evidence on Ogé's 1790 revolt and the beginnings of the Haitian Revolution / John D. Garrigus -- "The child should be made a Christian": baptism, race, and identity in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake / Rebecca Goetz -- West Indian identity in the eighteenth century / Trevor Burnard -- Illegal enslavement and the precariousness of freedom in nineteenth-century Brazil / Sidney Chalhoub -- Rosalie of the Poulard nation: freedom, law, and dignity in the era of the Haitian Revolution / Rebecca J. Scott and Jean M. Hébrard -- In memoriam, Evan Anders; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011 N2 - With the recent election of the nation's first African American president--an individual of blended Kenyan and American heritage who spent his formative years in Hawaii and Indonesia--the topic of transnational identity is reaching the forefront of the national consciousness in an unprecedented way. As our society becomes increasingly diverse and intermingled, it is increasingly imperative to understand how race and heritage impact our perceptions of and interactions with each other. Assumed Identities constitutes an important step in this direction.However, "identity is a slippery concept," say the editors of this instructive volume. This is nowhere more true than in the melting pot of the early trans-Atlantic cultures formed in the colonial New World during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. As the studies in this volume show, during this period in the trans-Atlantic world individuals and groups fashioned their identities but also had identities ascribed to them by surrounding societies. The historians who have contributed to this volume investigate these processes of multiple identity formation, as well as contemporary understandings of them.Originating in the 2007 Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures presented at the University of Texas at Arlington, Assumed Identities: The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World examines, among other topics, perceptions of racial identity in the Chesapeake community, in Brazil, and in Saint-Domingue (colonial-era Haiti). As the contributors demonstrate, the cultures in which these studies are sited helped define the subjects' self-perceptions and the ways others related to them UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=514627 ER -